DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

Colonial Flashback im Museum – Was Missionsobjekte über kirchliche Erinnerungskultur erzählen

Article / Paper

Franziska Moosmann

2025

Mission collections throughout Germany represent the material and ideological colonial legacy of the churches. Franziska Moosmann shares her impressions of her analysis of a mission museum exhibition and invites readers on a tour of selected rooms. In doing so, she asks how postcolonial theology and the culture of remembrance can be challenged and transformed by…

Moosmann, Franziska. 2025. Colonial Flashback im Museum – Was Missionsobjekte über kirchliche Erinnerungskultur erzählen. y-nachten.de, https://y-nachten.de/2025/01/colonial-flashback-im-museum-was-missionsobjekte-ueber-kirchliche-erinnerungskultur-erzaehlen/.

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